That's a feature not a flaw.
Unlikely. It makes the authorities look bad if they are blocking harmless sites. That's certainly what happened in Australia when ASIC tried to block a site for running a fraud, and accidently blocked the Melbourne Free University and around 1200 other live sites.
If you've got too few friends for that, then you probably have bigger problems.
Perhaps, but just because I have bigger problems doesn't mean I want to accumulate all of the lessor problems that would come from losing access to my email account.
I believe if you leave Australia long term or permanently, you'll cease to be an Australian resident as soon as you depart Australia. You may even be able to file your tax return early and possibly get a decent refund (based on having a lower than expected income for the shortened financial year), although unrealised capital gains may be an issue. I don't see anything in the links you gave to contradict that.
I haven't tried emigrating from Australia, but I've done it from a couple of other countries with similar systems and that's how it worked.
Otherwise it's just a huge duplication of effort, a lot of time wasted at MS.
Of course Microsoft are already spending their resources developing IE. You have to wonder whether they are getting value for money: why not just ship Firefox or Chrome with their OS?
Open sourcing it as abandonware (or nominally to some new or existing "foundation") is an option they should take seriously.
What do you mean? Is the lag on satellite Internet connections too high to do anything interactive? Low-orbit satellites would avoid that. Or is the uplink capacity too low to do anything other than request downloads? I'm not sure that there'd be any technical reason for such a limitation.
Personally, I'd love to have more options in Internet connectivity. Not every location in the world is supplied by the perfect ISP at a low cost.
If I remember correctly, they did have a scientific explanation for that. The explosion that separated the Moon from the Earth was so powerful that its relative velocity was close to the speed of light, so distance was contracted according to the theory of relativity.
However, I don't remember any explanation for how the moon and its inhabitants could survive intact with such a powerful explosion and rapid acceleration. Maybe I need to go and rewatch the series to find out.
How many laptops still have DVD drives these days? The last one I saw doesn't even have an ethernet port (and the laptop was too thin for one to fit anyway).
Can they make backup bootable USB sticks?
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.